ډبلیو اېف پي: څه باندې ۲۹ میلیونه افغان وګړي بشري مرستو ته اړتیا لري

Afghanistan, Balkh Province, 27 November 2021 In the Photo: WFP Convoy travelling through Balkh Province Photo: WFP/Julian Frank Info, Facts and Stats: We are on a countdown to catastrophe as a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions unfolds before our eyes. More than half of the population are facing acute hunger and 3.2 million children are suffering from malnutrition. Humanitarian needs have tripled, and will continue to rise as the bitter winter sets in pushing communities to the limit. • 22.8 million people face acute food insecurity according to the latest IPC assessment. All 34 provinces are facing crisis or emergency levels of acute food insecurity. We have never seen this many people facing emergency levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan. • Things were desperate in the first part of the year with drought, conflict and COVID-19. Since August we have seen the situation spiral into chaos with the collapse of public services and a deepening economic crisis. • We are at a point of no return. If our efforts to rapidly scale up are supported now, we can avoid the worst-case scenario come Spring. But the international community must urgently step up – getting funds into Afghanistan and funding lifesaving humanitarian operations such as those run by WFP – before it’s too late. Conflict over the last 20 years has killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Afghanistan. Tragically, hundreds of thousands - perhaps millions - of innocent Afghans are at risk of dying in this new war of hunger – without a single shot fired. • Cash shortages, jobs losses, and unpaid salaries followed the rapid withdrawal of international aid and the freeze of the country’s overseas assets. • The economic crisis has created a new class of hungry. For the first time, urban residents are suffering from food insecurity at similar rates to rural communities, which had been ravaged by drought twice in the p